Winona Ryder

An icon of 1990s film, actress Winona Ryder first earned a loyal following for giving unusual depth and inner life to teen characters in films like "Heathers" (1989) and "Edward Scissorhands" (1990)....
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Winona Ryder, Robert Duvall, Andie Macdowell and Jeff Bridges were among the stars who offered up tributes to Michael Keaton as he received a top honour at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in California. Keaton was handed the Modern Master Award during a ceremony at Santa Barbara's historic Arlington Theatre on Saturday night (31Jan15), and he was feted with a two-hour tribute in honour of his Hollywood career.
A number of his friends and former colleagues offered tributes to Keaton as part of the event, including his Beetlejuice co-star Ryder, who recorded a video message for her friend, saying, "I cannot tell you how many times I've heard people not being able to decide what their favorite Michael Keaton movie is because there are so many great ones."
Danny DeVito, who appeared opposite caped crusader Keaton in Batman Returns, made an appearance at the event to fete the actor in person, along with his Multiplicity co-star Andie MacDowell, who called Keaton an "an inspiration and a friend".
Other video tributes came in from Keaton's neighbour Jeff Bridges, his A Shot at Glory co-star Robert Duvall, and Birdman director Alejandro G. Inarritu.
When he took to the stage to collect his award, Keaton told the audience, "Wow, I think I'm gonna pass out... This is overwhelming... Thank you for a wonderful night."
Keaton is riding high on critical acclaim for his latest film Birdman and is set to compete for an Academy Award for the role later this month (Feb15).

Tim Burton is known for his dark style. Each of his movies has a theme that includes death and sadness, but many people love them because those elements make his films beautiful. You might be one of those people whose love for Burton goes to extreme levels, but is your life like his films? It's time to find out by checking off these 12 signs.
1. You feel like people are usually "concern trolling" you. Back away trolls!
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2. You live in the suburbs, but you have made sure your house (or at least your room) is the "different" one on the block.
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3. Your group of friends are rather unusual, but of course lovable.
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4. You drive your parents crazy and they keep reminding you of it.
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5. People have asked you why can't you just be "normal" and all you want to say is:
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6. Christmas decorations at your house involves skulls and other Halloween things. It's just not a proper Christmas without them.
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7. When Halloween comes around your creepiness cannot be stopped!
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8. No one believes you, but you have witnessed some paranormal activity.
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9. Your lover is just as dark and unusual as you. It's perfect!
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10. You have gone through a scary experience and wondered if you were in the after life.
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11. Even your pet might fall under the "unusual" category.
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12. You surround yourself with a certain type of literature.
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Winona Ryder and director Edgar Wright will be among the star-studded panel judging the competition at next year's (15) Sundance Film Festival. Ryder and Wright, along with True Detective director Cary Fukunaga, will preside over the U.S. Dramatic Jury competition, while Interstellar co-writer Jonathan Nolan and actress/writer Brit Marling are part of the jury for the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize, which recognises science in film.
The jury members will vote on a number of films featuring stars including Viola Davis, James Franco, Jennifer Lopez, Ewan McGregor, Ryan Reynolds and Jesse Eisenberg.
The annual festival, which was founded by Robert Redford, runs from 22 January to 1 February (15) in Utah.

Gabrielle Union has written an essay on the Hollywood hacking scandal for a U.S. magazine, describing her horror when she was included on the list of targeted celebrities just a day after her wedding. The actress found out her intimate personal pictures had been stolen from her cloud storage account shortly after she married sports star Dwyane Wade in August (14).
In the article for America's Cosmopolitan magazine, Union reveals the stress of the scandal ruined her honeymoon, writing, "A day after I got married this past August, rumours spread on the Internet that my name was on a list of more than 100 women whose private photos had been stolen off Apple's iCloud. I had been so happy that week, thinking about my wedding and honeymoon... But suddenly, I felt paralysed... The site (4Chan, which published the shots) said more photos were to come, including mine... It felt like The Hunger Games: You're waiting to be attacked... My honeymoon was plagued by thoughts of when I would get hit. It was always in the back of my mind: Will today be the day my life gets ruined?... The hit came three weeks later. I was on the final night of a beach retreat... A photo of me had surfaced online."
Union goes on to brand the hacking a "hate crime against women" and a "new form of sexual abuse", and reveals the scandal has cost her a huge amount of money in legal fees as she fought to have her nude snaps removed from the web.
She adds, "My lawyers started sending 'cease and desist' letters to sites that were running the stolen photos. Legal bills began rolling in. Every time the lawyers managed to remove photos from one site, the shots popped up on another... It's an insane battle."
Union concludes by urging women to change their passwords regularly, and make them "complex" and "varied".
Scarlett Johansson, Rihanna, Kim Kardashian, Winona Ryder and Vanessa Hudgens are also among the famous females who were targeted by the hackers, and agents at America's Federal Bureau of Investigation subsequently launched a probe.

Bosses at America's ABC network are adapting beloved novel Little Women for the small screen, featuring British actress Natascha Mcelhone. The Truman Show star will not only act in the project but serve as an executive producer for the series.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, author Louisa May Alcott's story will take on a modern storyline, following the lives of four sisters coming of age against a backdrop of military scandal and the loss of the family's fortune.
While Little Women has been adapted many times for both film and TV over the years, the most recent came in 1994 in a film featuring Winona Ryder, Susan Sarandon, Kirsten Dunst and Christian Bale.

He’s one of the biggest names in Hollywood, but Christian Bale has always been somewhat of a mystery. Hell, we didn’t even realize he had a British accent until a few years ago! He commits so fully to his characters that we felt it was only right to commit to digging up facts on this transformative actor. Some you may know already, others might come as a surprise.
1. He was born in Wales, but he’s technically English.
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But to make things even more confusing, he'll sometimes do interviews in an American accent if he's playing an American character.
2. He was the first non-American to portray Batman.
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3. He met his wife, Sibi Blazic, through his Little Women co-star Winona Ryder.
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Blazic was Ryder’s personal assistant.
4. He's an expert at losing and gaining weight.
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Bale transforms for his roles. He infamously lost 63 pounds (yikes) for his role in The Machinist , and gained 43 pounds for his role in American Hustle.
5. He worked with David O. Russell and Amy Adams twice – in both The Fighter and American Hustle.
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6. He was in Newsies.
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He sang! He danced! He was an adorable teenager!
7. He was originally cast to play George W. Bush in the movie W., but dropped out and was replaced by Josh Brolin.
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8. He has a kind heart.
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Following a 2012 shooting at an Aurora, Colorado movie theater during a showing of The Dark Knight Rises, Bale visited survivors in the hospital.
9. He also has a bit of a temper.
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A recording of his tirade on the set of Terminator: Salvation was released – and remixed – in 2009. He apologized for it, though.
10. He was almost replaced by Leonardo DiCaprio in American Psycho.
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Leo dropped out to star in The Beach. We'd say things worked out in favor of Bale.
11. He partially shaved his head to get an authentic-looking combover in American Hustle.
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Now that's dedication!
12. His dad, David Bale, was married to feminist Gloria Steinem from 2000 until his death in 2003.
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13. At age 12, Bale beat out more than 4,000 child actors for the starring role in Empire of the Sun.
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His performance won him the first ever "Best Performance by a Juvenile Actor" award from the National Board of Review.
14. He was just cast to play Steve Jobs.
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He's set to star in the Danny Boyle-directed film Jobs (not to be confused with the Ashton Kutcher flick of the same name). Seth Rogen just signed on to play Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
15. He bears a striking resemblence to Kermit the Frog.
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We blame the Internet for this one.
Hopefully we made this private actor just a little more knowable.
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Former Disney star Keke Palmer has been exposed in a series of revealing pictures in the latest wave of nude celebrity photo leaks.
Six shots of the 21-year-old actress/singer in various states of undress surfaced online on Friday (10Oct14), with one reportedly showing the True Jackson, VP star posing topless and another featuring her sitting on a toilet seat completely naked. Palmer, who is currently making history as Broadway's first black Cinderella, has yet to comment on the leaked photos.
The explicit images emerge weeks after Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and Kirsten Dunst, among other famous females were targeted in the first wave of stolen images in late August (14). Scarlett Johansson, Rihanna, Kim Kardashian, Winona Ryder, Gabrielle Union, Vanessa Hudgens, Meagan Good and British beauty Kelly Brook have also been targeted. FBI agents have been called in to investigate the leak.

Model and actress Kelly Brook has broken her silence about the latest nude celebrity hacking scandal, almost a month after she became a victim of tech crooks who have leaked candid shots of stars like Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton. As FBI agents continue with an investigation into the photo scandal, Brook has joined the likes of fellow victims Lawrence, Meagan Good and Mary Elizabeth Winstead in speaking out about the "sex crime".
In a tweet posted on Thursday (09Oct14), Brook writes, "My Lawyer is currently dealing with 18 Women who have all had their iCloud hacked. It is a Sex Crime and a complete invasion of Privacy.
"We will find this person and they will be prosecuted. Not having it. Some very young innocent women have been targeted it's so wrong."
Cyber criminals have been releasing the explicit snaps in waves since late August (14), when private pictures of stars were stolen from cloud storage accounts and posted online.
Scarlett Johansson, Rihanna, Kim Kardashian, Winona Ryder, Gabrielle Union and Vanessa Hudgens are also among the famous females who have also been targeted in recent weeks, and now former Doctor Who Matt Smith and Hulk Hogan's son Nick have become the first guys linked to the scandal.

Gavin Rossdale's model daughter Daisy Lowe and her ex-boyfriend, former Doctor Who star Matt Smith, have become the latest victims of Hollywood's latest nude photo hacking scandal.
Cyber criminals have been releasing the explicit snaps in waves since late August (14), when private pictures of stars including Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and Kirsten Dunst were stolen from cloud storage accounts and posted online.
Scarlett Johansson, Rihanna, Kim Kardashian, Winona Ryder, Gabrielle Union and Vanessa Hudgens are among the famous females who have also been targeted in recent weeks, and now Lowe and Smith's names have been added to the growing victims' list.
A slew of images purportedly featuring the former couple naked appeared on a website on Thursday (09Oct14), under the title, Daisy Lowe Leaked Nude (sic). The photos appear to show Lowe and Smith posing seductively in the mirror of a hotel bathroom and are believed to be at least a year old as the stars called off their rekindled romance last year (13).
The ex-couple, which has yet to comment on the photo leak, previously dated for 18 months before parting ways in 2011.
Lowe is Rossdale's 25-year-old daughter from his previous relationship with British singer Pearl Lowe.
The latest stolen pictures emerge days after Lawrence broke her silence about the embarrassing scandal, branding it a "disgusting sex crime" and urged lawmakers to change legislation to prosecute those responsible.
Agents from America's FBI have been called in to investigate the leak, while a lawyer representing a number of the female victims has urged bosses of Internet search engine Google to help remove the remaining nude snaps from the web.

Notoriously private actress Winona Ryder has reportedly become the latest star to fall victim to the Hollywood hacking scandal.
Ryder is believed to have been included in the latest group of celebrities whose explicit photos were stolen from cloud storage accounts and posted online on Sunday (05Sep14). Other stars targeted in the latest batch of leaked photos are rumored to include Victoria's Secret model Erin Heatherton, singer Ingrid Michaelson and actress AnnaLynne McCord.
Wrestler Hulk Hogan's son, Nick, was also believed to have been included in the leak, but he has branded the snaps fake.
Agents at America's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have been investigating since the first leak back in August (14). Other stars affected include Jennifer Lawrence, Kirsten Dunst, Scarlett Johansson, Kim Kardashian and Rihanna. Lawyers acting for a number of the female hacking victims have threatened to sue Google bosses for $100 million (£62.5 million) over claims they have not done enough to remove the images from the Internet.

At age 13, discovered by talent scout Deborah Lucchesi who observed her performing a monologue from her favorite author J.D. Salinger's "Franny & Zooey" at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theatre

Portrayed the meek, religious daughter of a promiscuous mom (Cher) in the coming-of-age drama "Mermaids"

Earned an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Martin Scorsese's "The Age of Innocence"

Acted in Woody Allen's "Celebrity" as an actress/waitress who gets involved with Kenneth Branagh

Starred in the cult hit "Heathers"; first film with friend Denise Di Novi as producer

Attended San Francisco's prestigious American Conservatory Theatre

Arrested and charged with shoplifiting over $5,500 worth of merchandise from Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills, CA

Played a dying woman romanced by a playboy (Richard Gere) in "Autumn in New York"

Summary

An icon of 1990s film, actress Winona Ryder first earned a loyal following for giving unusual depth and inner life to teen characters in films like "Heathers" (1989) and "Edward Scissorhands" (1990). Her enormous, expressive brown eyes and a radiance that reminded early champion Tim Burton of the "timeless old movie stars" went on to become a favorite element in period dramas like "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992), "The Age of Innocence" (1994) and "The Crucible" (1996), as well as the perfect angst-ridden teen in films like "Reality Bites." On a personal level, the Nineties' "It" girl's love life enthralled fans and the press alike, as each move made with famous boyfriends, including Johnny Depp and Matt Damon, was chronicled religiously. Following Ryder's executive producer debut with "Girl, Interrupted" (1999), her career stammered with several theatrical flops and a high-profile shoplifting incident that painted a portrait of an actress who had not only lost her career footing but her sense of right and wrong. She separated from Hollywood for several years, but the public was forgiving, with Ryder returning with a string of independent films in 2007 and scoring a major coup when cast in the role of Spock's mother in J.J. Abrams reimagined film franchise, "Star Trek" (2009), followed by a turn as an over-the-hill ballerina in Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan" (2010). While the transition may not have been as smooth as she could have hoped, Ryder had successfully made the difficult segue from film ingénue to seasoned actress, so rarely achieved in an unforgiving industry.

Began dating 1990; Co-starred in "Edward Scissorhands" (1990); Engaged as of February 1990; Depp had "Winona Forever" tattooed on his arm; Separated 1993; Ryder later said of their breakup: "I was just really young. I don't know what his excuse is, but that's mine"; Depp later altered tattoo to "Wino Forever"

Born c. 1939; originally from Brooklyn and graduate of NYU; owned Flashback Books, a store specializing in the writings of the counterculture; book archivist for Timothy Leary; Married Winona's mother 1982

Cindy Horowitz

Mother

Born c. 1941; Previously married with two children; wed Winona's father 1982

Education

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Petaluma High School

American Conservatory Theatre

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Soon after Ryder's birth, her parents moved to San Francisco, CA, sharing a house with her mother's ex-husband and his new wife. The family later traveled to Colombia. Ryder's first memories were of the beach in Colombia, where her parents were staying with Chilean-revolutionary friends.

She returned to San Francisco when she was two and a half (c. 1974). Her family later settled in a a commune in Mendocino (Northern California) when she was seven and lived there for four years before settling in Petaluma, CA. Her initial exposure to Petaluma's public schools did not go well. Students mistook her for an effeminate boy because of her short hair and beat her up on her third day.

"I see Noni [Winona] as one of the first members of a new generation, 'The Kids of the Summer of Love.' Noni's never gonna end up with a cocaine habit! These kids who've grown up in houses where marijuana was smoked are not going to go berserk the first time a guy in a raincoat offers 'em something in an alley." – Timothy Leary on Ryder, to David Handelman in Rolling Stone, May 18, 1989

Ryder on finally meeting Myra, the child bride of Jerry Lee Lewis, whom she portrayed in "Great Balls of Fire!" during a screening of the film: "I was so nervous. We were showing her some stuff where he was picking her up from school and says, 'I'm gonna marry you.' I looked over and she was crying and I was so scared because I didn't know what she was crying about. I didn't know if she was crying because I was a bad actress or that it was so real. And then she turned to me and hugged me and said, 'You're a gift from God.' It was probably the most amazing feeling that I've ever had in connection with acting." – quoted in The Los Angeles Times magazine, May 28, 1989

In 1990, Ryder checked into a psychiatric ward to confront severe anxiety attacks (some claimed she was having a nervous breakdown) but left after one week. She later drew from this experience for "Girl, Interrupted" (1999).

Ryder spearheaded a reward effort in the case of Polly Klaas, a 12-year-old Petaluma neighbor kidnapped from her home and later found murdered in 1993. The actress dedicated "Little Women" (1994) to her memory.

"Winona has a good sense of humor, and her energy is boundless. It was like having rampant youth on the set. She'd be jumping up and down, but then when you said, 'Action,' she froze in position. All that energy was put behind her eyes, and I found that really fascinating." – Martin Scorsese to Rolling Stone magazine, March 10, 1994

"I became successful in such a gradual way. I was never in a huge hit that made me an overnight star. So I never got shoved down peoples' throats. I was doing movies, some were successful, some weren't, but the ones that weren't successful weren't a Winona Ryder movie." – Ryder quoted in USA Weekend, Oct. 6, 1995

"I grew up in San Francisco, then in this commune for four years. I grew up around drag queens and gay men and hard-core feminists and all sorts of people, and I never differentiated. Also, there was a lot of free love. Everyone was naked, so it was never really a big deal. [But] I think I wanted things to be more strict. I wanted rules and a curfew, and I wanted to have my dinner with my family every night. I wanted to be like all the kids at school. I wanted to live in a town, in a little house." – Ryder on her upbringing to Buzz, December/January 1996-97

In an interview with "60 Minutes," former secretary of Health Education and Welfare Joseph Califano cited Ryder as a bad influence on young women because she has played characters who smoke cigarettes. Ryder told USA Today (April 11, 1997): "As much as people want to call us role models, we're actors first. It's up to individuals to decide whether to smoke. I don't apologize for smoking onscreen. It should be our choice, and I don't think we influence people to smoke."

"I didn't do drugs; I didn't get loaded," Ms. Ryder says. "But the depression. The worst part of it was not being able to describe it, the overwhelming horror of the anxiety attacks, even to my own family, to the people closest to me." She had all the classic symptoms: "My breathing would get labored; everything would start speeding up, and I'd get very scared. The closest I ever came to describing it was that feeling when you almost get in a car wreck and you swerve, and for a second there are needles in your head and needles in your body. It's that moment, but stretched out." – from The New York Times, Nov. 14, 1999

"When it comes to business, she is not that delicate creature," says screenwriter Jay Cocks, who wrote the adaptation of "The Age of Innocence." He recalls a dinner during which a famous director tried in vain to persuade her to take the lead in a remake, something she objects to on principle. "He kept telling her to take the money, but he couldn't convince her," Mr. Cocks says. "She has fantastic confidence in her own judgment, which she should have, because she has very good taste." – from The New York Times, Nov. 14, 1999

Ryder disclosed to Harper's Bazaar (August 2000) that she was a natural blonde and had been dyeing her hair since age 12.

In December 2001, Ryder was arrested for allegedly shoplifting items of clothing valued at over $4500 as well as possessing pharmaceutical drugs without a prescription. Ryder was freed after posting $20,000 bail. In January 2002, she was charged with four felony counts including theft, burglary, vandalism, and possession of a controlled substance. At her February arraignment, the actress entered a plea of not guilty. On Nov. 6, 2002, Ryder was convicted of theft and vandalism, but she was acquitted of burglary charges.

"The attention was what was embarrassing. It was the December after September 11th. So much attention was being paid to me, when we had just been attacked, and there was all this really important news going on." – Ryder on her arrest for shoplifting, quoted in Vogue, August 2007